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Patented Mar. 29,

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G. W. GINGER.

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No. 471,855. Patented Mar. 29, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE IV. GINGER, OF HUNTERSVILLE, WVEST VIRGINIA.

WRENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,855, dated March 29, 1892.

Application filed July 7, 1891. Serial No. 398,638. (No model.)

fication.

This invention relates to certain improvements in combination-tools.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved tool capable of use as a nut and pipe wrench, as a tack or nail drawer, and as a horseshoers tool fordriving nails and twisting or clinching the nails. These objects are accomplished by and this invention consists in certain novel features of construction vand in combinations of parts more fully described hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is aperspective view of the tool. Fig. 2 is a view of the tool when applied as a nutwrench. Fig. 3 is aview of the tool, showing it applied as a nail or tack drawer. Fig. 4. is a view showing the tool in use as a nailclincher for horseshoers.

In the drawings, reference-letters a b indicate the two levers having the elongated handle ends and pivoted together and crossed at o by passing one lever through a transverse opening in the other and thereby attaining great strength. The lever a is provided with j the jaw d, extending outwardly and curved slightly upwardly and with a preferably thin outer end. This lower jaw is provided with the downwardly-extending hammer-head f, formed integralwith lever a, and jaw d and extending down from the jaw near the base thereof. The upper face of the jaw (Z is pro- Vided with the inwardly-extendin g heavy serrations g, as shown throughout the length of the jaw, except at the extremity thereof,which is formed thin and smooth, so that the said jaw can be used as a nail-clincher or tackdrawer, these objects being accomplished by means of the longitudinal tapered slit h. The lever 12 is provided with the jaw e, integral therewith. This jaw is curved upwardly from its pivotal point at a greater angle than the curve of jaw d, so that when the two jaws are at their limits of movements toward each other there will be considerable space left between them, as shown, with the upper jaw extending up from and at an angle to the lower jaw. The upper jaw is provided'with downwardlyinclined serrations t'.

The great simplicity and many and varied uses of this tool are obvious. The tool is composed of but three parts-via, the two levers and the pivot-pin.

The tool is of great efficiency as a nut-wrench,

as shown in Fig. 2, the slide, curve, and teeth of the lower jaw holding the nut by one edge and corner,while the teeth of the upper curved jaw will catch the corner of the nut and thereby firmly hold it during turning or holding operation. The wrench can also be used for grasping pipe or such bodies.

The thin and upwardly-curved end of the split lower jaw enables the tool to be most efficiently used as a tack-drawer or for the purpose of twisting off nails in the operation of shoeing horses, and great advantages are attained by having the lower slightly-curved jaw form the twister, as the nails can be grasped more readily and in more varied position than where the upper long jaw is used as a twister. Furthermore, this peculiar curved lower j aw, in connection with the hammer-head fat the base of said jaw, is a point of great advantage, as the lower end of the hammer forms a fulcrum for the tool in extracting nails, tacks, or the like.

The tool is of the greatest advantage for use of horseshoers, the article being used as a hammer to drive in horseshoe-nails, and after the nails have been driven in the jaw dis used to twist the projecting ends of the nails off, and then the tool is fitted upon the hoof with the lower jaw bearing up against the head of the nail and engaging the shoe and the upwardlycurved jaw lying against outer sideof the hoof with its serrations engaging the'end of the nail projecting from the hoof. The nails are then drawn together, drawing down the long clinching-j aw e, thereby clinching the of the jaw being thin and splitand the upper i face of the jaw provided with serrations, and the upper jaw curved upwardly at a greater angle than the lower jaw and having the upwardly-inclined serrations, as and for the purposes set forth. t

2. The tool as an article of manufacture, consistingof thetwo crossed pivoted levers, the lower jaw having the hammer-head extending from its base and the split outer end, and the teeth on the upper face, and the upper upwardly-inclined jaw having the teeth, substantially as described,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEO. W. GINGER. Witnesses:

N. O. MONEIL, HENRY GRosE. 

